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Steve Werner

@smwerner.bsky.social
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I have worked in international development for most of my career and I primarily consult for international nonprofit organizations, foundations, and corporations.

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Steve Werner @smwerner.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Article by Dr. Robert Reich today: robertreich.substack.com/p/sunday-tho...
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Sunday thought: Criminals in Control
And what we must do
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Steve Werner @smwerner.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
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Trump Honors Those Who Helped Others Avoid Service at Tomb of the Unknown Podiatrist
The solemn ceremony has become an annual tradition for him.
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Steve Werner @smwerner.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
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Here’s How Republicans are Trying to Pay for a War No One Wants
The White House is looking into a creative new way to finance Trump’s war in Iran: Kicking 300,000 Americans off their health insurance to pay for it.
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Steve Werner @smwerner.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
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If...
If you've had enough, let's get to work.
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Steve Werner @smwerner.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
2025 PRIORITIES SURVEY act.electjon.com/signup/ossof...
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2025 PRIORITIES SURVEY
Please fill out our 2025 Priorities Survey to share your thoughts with Jon and our team.
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Steve Werner @smwerner.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
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Why are we so polarized (I)?
Confronting the longer-term erosion
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Steve Werner @smwerner.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
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Sunday thought: America without a president
Friends,
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Steve Werner @smwerner.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
The Great Pushback? open.substack.com/pub/robertre...
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The Great Pushback?
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Steve Werner @smwerner.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
The first 100 days: Why we must mobilize open.substack.com/pub/robertre...
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The first 100 days: Why we must mobilize
Now is the time for all of us to become activists and force this despicable regime out of office
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Steve Werner @smwerner.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Ineptitude, incompetence, stupidity, and chaos open.substack.com/pub/robertre...
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Ineptitude, incompetence, stupidity, and chaos
Trump is fundamentally incapable of governing. That’s the theme that unites everything.
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Steve Werner @smwerner.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
Sunday thought open.substack.com/pub/robertre...
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Sunday thought
The contagion of courage
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Steve Werner @smwerner.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
The benedicttrump dictatorship needs to be ousted ASAP. It is a matter of life and death for millions around the world and freedom, democracy, and Rule of Law here at home. All the Repug ( repugnant Republicans) elected officials and all the MAGA accomplices are accessories to treason.
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Steve Werner @smwerner.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Global Dispatches www.globaldispatches.org?utm_campaign...
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Global Dispatches | Mark Leon Goldberg | Substack
Global Dispatches serves: Foreign Policy, Geopolitics, Sustainable Development, Global Health, Crises, Human Rights, International Relations -- and world news that matters "To Save Us From Hell" is o...
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Steve Werner @smwerner.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
This week’s winners of the Joseph Welch and Neville Chamberlain awards open.substack.com/pub/robertre...
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This week’s winners of the Joseph Welch and Neville Chamberlain awards
Harvard University gets the Welch. Seven big law firms get the Chamberlain.
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Steve Werner @smwerner.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
The devious purpose behind MAGA's incessant lying open.substack.com/pub/aaronrup...
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The devious purpose behind MAGA's incessant lying
Creating a fog of confusion is a feature, not a bug.
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Steve Werner @smwerner.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
Sunday thought open.substack.com/pub/robertre...
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Sunday thought
Fighting the regime’s cruelty
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Steve Werner @smwerner.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
In unity, there’s strength to confront Trump. In disunity, cowardice open.substack.com/pub/robertre...
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In unity, there’s strength to confront Trump. In disunity, cowardice
Why didn’t the nation’s top 20 law firms sign a friend-of-the-court brief against Trump’s vindictive executive orders? What their associates, coming associates, and law school deans ought to do.
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Steve Werner @smwerner.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Petitioning the King open.substack.com/pub/briantyl...
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Petitioning the King
Trump believes crashing the economy is worth it if he can extract what he needs from the rest of the world.
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Steve Werner @smwerner.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Additional small reasons for modest optimism open.substack.com/pub/robertre...
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Additional small reasons for modest optimism
Eleven from this week
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Steve Werner @smwerner.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
10 rules for dealing with Trump’s demands for capitulation open.substack.com/pub/robertre...
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10 rules for dealing with Trump’s demands for capitulation
Whether it’s universities, law firms, or entire countries, here are 10 basic rules for hitting back
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Steve Werner @smwerner.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
There's no sum of money that will keep you safe from Trump open.substack.com/pub/aaronrup...
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There's no sum of money that will keep you safe from Trump
Corporations are learning this the hard way.
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Steve Werner @smwerner.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
Will all the MAGA folks notice that right after benedicttrump said he won the last election with the biggest margin of victory ever, he pulled stefanik's nomination to be UN ambassador because he is worried about the house majority. The traitor lies again! His lies are getting in the 6 digit realm.
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Steve Werner @smwerner.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
Sunday thought open.substack.com/pub/robertre...
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Sunday thought
Comedy and tragedy
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Steve Werner @smwerner.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
Trump’s car taxes on Americans open.substack.com/pub/robertre...
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Trump’s car taxes on Americans
Friends,
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Steve Werner @smwerner.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Six small morsels of hope open.substack.com/pub/robertre...
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Six small morsels of hope
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Steve Werner @smwerner.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
20 Signs of Tyranny open.substack.com/pub/robertre...
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20 Signs of Tyranny
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Steve Werner @smwerner.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Where the HELL are the Democrats? open.substack.com/pub/robertre...
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Where the HELL are the Democrats?
Friends,
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Steve Werner @smwerner.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
If Trump can disappear them, he can disappear you. open.substack.com/pub/robertre...
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If Trump can disappear them, he can disappear you.
With no court to verify anything the Trump regime alleges, you could be arrested and sent to a prison in El Salvador for having views the regime dislikes
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Steve Werner @smwerner.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
The biggest upward transfer of wealth in history open.substack.com/pub/robertre...
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The biggest upward transfer of wealth in history
Trump’s tariffs will especially hurt lower-income Americans, while his tax cuts will especially benefit the wealthy.
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Steve Werner @smwerner.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
More of Trump’s descent into dictatorship open.substack.com/pub/robertre...
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More of Trump’s descent into dictatorship
Two illegal firings that will increase prices for consumers and concentrate more power in Trump’s hands — unless the courts stop him.
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Steve Werner @smwerner.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
How our global friends can help us open.substack.com/pub/robertre...
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How our global friends can help us
Don’t come here
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Steve Werner @smwerner.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Telling the federal judiciary to “f*ck off” open.substack.com/pub/robertre...
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Telling the federal judiciary to “f*ck off”
Will Trump defy the Supreme Court?
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Steve Werner @smwerner.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
And more than 75% of USAID funds have to be spent with American farmers and American businesses (transport of food, equipment, services). Like all of president musk's/benedicttrump's actions, there are other objectives, primary objective to weaken America for the benefit of the putin puppeteer.
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Steve Werner @smwerner.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
How to fight the Trump regime’s use of fear and intimidation open.substack.com/pub/robertre...
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How to fight the Trump regime’s use of fear and intimidation
Three rules for responding to his tyranny
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Steve Werner @smwerner.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
This isn't funny but true…none of the scores of countries who helped us after 9/11 tried to extort us for our natural resources!
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Steve Werner @smwerner.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
The National Boycott is only going to work if it is weekly. Once a month will not make enough of an impact that will hurt billionaires' business income and stock values and people will lose interest and stop supporting it if it appears a failure.
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Steve Werner @smwerner.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
Sign the petition to demand Mahmoud Khalil be immediately released and threats against his legal status be dropped! And call on members of Congress and university leaders to protect and defend the right for students to organize and protest. sign.moveon.org/petitions/fr...
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Free Mahmoud Khalil and protect students exercising their First Amendment rights!
Sign the petition to demand Mahmoud Khalil be immediately released and threats against his legal status be dropped! And call on members of Congress and university leaders to protect and defend the rig...
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Steve Werner @smwerner.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Don't mean to pick on NPR, but they reported president musk/benedicttrump's Tesla advertisement at the White House as "unusual" instead of as illegal, unethical, conflict of interest, and abuse of office. musk/benedicttrump destroying America before our eyes makes corruption appear to be "unusual"!
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Steve Werner @smwerner.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Even more reasons for very modest optimism open.substack.com/pub/robertre... or
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Even more reasons for very modest optimism
Ten more.
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Steve Werner @smwerner.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Why we need a new free speech movement open.substack.com/pub/robertre...
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Why we need a new free speech movement
And why universities should sue the Trump regime for abridging the First Amendment rights of their institutions and their students
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Steve Werner @smwerner.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
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Trump is a traitor, and Europe is now alone
A view from France
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Steve Werner @smwerner.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
First they came for illegal immigrants, then they came for legal green card residents, then they came for citizens who used their 1st Amendment rights, then they came for me!
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Steve Werner @smwerner.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
The Trump regime will arrest some of you in the middle of the night because you spoke your mind open.substack.com/pub/robertre...
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The Trump regime will arrest some of you in the middle of the night because you spoke your mind
Chilling
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Steve Werner @smwerner.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
The universities are next open.substack.com/pub/robertre...
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The universities are next
Friends,
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Steve Werner @smwerner.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
Taking heart open.substack.com/pub/robertre...
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Taking heart
Friends,
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Steve Werner @smwerner.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
More reasons for modest optimism open.substack.com/pub/robertre...
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More reasons for modest optimism
This week’s ten
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Steve Werner @smwerner.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
The biggest Ponzi scheme in history open.substack.com/pub/robertre...
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The biggest Ponzi scheme in history
Friends,
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Steve Werner @smwerner.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
I want to support BlueSky but it's limit on the number of words and difficult use and navigation make it a poor substitute to Facebook, that I'd dump in a second if there was an alternative.
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Steve Werner @smwerner.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
trump is putin's puppet and everything he is doing is to weaken the U.S., cause distractions, divide Americans, all so putin can do whatever he wants with little or no opposition. trump's reward is that he can stuff his pockets with Americans' hard earned money while the ship is sinking.
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Steve Werner @smwerner.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Democrats! Wake the hell up! open.substack.com/pub/robertre...
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Democrats! Wake the hell up!
Boycott Trump’s address to Congress tonight. If you must go, make good trouble.
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